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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of cosy.

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Examples

  • The rhythms of their strangulating keep‑ball – cosied within the skirts of the new non-clogging rules – combine to make them something close to unbeatable.

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  • After some scary and hilarious mix-ups, all ends happily with Eddy and Freddy reunited and Bear and Teddy cosied up together.

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  • As she cosied up on the sofa with Michael Portillo for what she obviously expected to be another light-hearted chat on the BBC's This Week programme, she was visibly shocked when host Andrew Neil turned to her with a line of direct personal questioning.

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  • As a footnote, Arabs may have cosied up to Germany as the only superpower available to them in resisting the British Empire.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Scaife (her new buddy) thinks she did in Vince Foster, and she seems to have cosied up to his point of view lately.

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  • The most basic research would reveal that the great heroic leader of the New Afrika Korps, George Galloway, has cosied up to many of the most odious mass-murderers on the planet.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Other inspirational leaders to whom Cameron has cosied up include the doyens of the United Estates of Wythenshawe project - also supported by Tory-linked city charities - and his candidate in Whalley Range was, delightfully I'm sure, in cahoots with Hizb_ut-Tahrir.

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  • Other inspirational leaders to whom Cameron has cosied up include the doyens of the United Estates of Wythenshawe project - also supported by Tory-linked city charities - and his candidate in Whalley Range was, delightfully I'm sure, in cahoots with Hizb_ut-Tahrir.

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  • Other inspirational leaders to whom Cameron has cosied up include the doyens of the United Estates of Wythenshawe project - also supported by Tory-linked city charities - and his candidate in Whalley Range was, delightfully I'm sure, in cahoots with Hizb_ut-Tahrir.

    Archive 2008-05-04 2008

  • As to Chinese state goons on London's street - the fascist Blair government cosied up to these goons many years ago, when they dictated who should and who should not demonstrate freely on London's streets during Chinese state visits - and I should not be surprised if Blair's thugs took lessons from the Chinese ones.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

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